Yesterday, we shared the story of catching a Copyright Infringer red handed. Today, we share the result of that contact with the content thief in an everlasting and ongoing fight against the stealing of our written property by complete and utter dullards.
For at least the past 20 years or so magazine publishers have tried to get away with paying authors by-the-word at a dime per word and without any future rights reverting back to the author.
Not only is ten-cents-a-word an outrageously bad sum of non-money — it denigrates the idea of “the whole of the writing” by breaking down the craft into its tiniest bits and not even its architectural pieces.
Pop singer Cyndi Lauper’s “official” website stole an article Janna Sweenie wrote for GO INSIDE Magazine a few years back and republished the article, in full, without our knowledge or even permission to republish the article. You can see the thievery here:
http://www.cyndilauper.com/article_det.php?display=all&art_id=144
You can see the original article here:
http://goinside.com/1998/07/05/interpreting-for-cyndi-lauper/
Continue reading → CyndiLauper.com Steals from GO INSIDE Magazine
Please join me in celebrating Go Inside Magazine’s one year anniversary being hosted by the Pros at SimpleNet! Our year on SimpleNet has been a tremendous success. Our reader numbers have risen higher than we could have hoped in our wildest visions. You’re able to read us due to the redundant and robust web hosting network of SimpleNet services.
Dear Reader —
As we burn into the New Year, please allow me a rare and humble opportunity as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of GO INSIDE, to spend a private moment and share the vision of where our hearts and minds will take you inside in 1997.
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